Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picking the Man of the Year for TIME's first January cover has become such a tradition with TIME's readers that you might be amused to learn that the whole thing began because the first week of January 1928 was so dull...
...Magyar counts and the Admiral stared despondently from their high windows and saw Europe and its New Order disintegrating. They saw ahead more dull, humiliating months as errand boys to Hitler, then fine chances for insurrection and chaos. They wondered what they could do about...
...find the Black Dragon boys in the dull, stuffy, British-style Tokyo Club, drinking gin & bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
Less famous than The Cherry Orchard, but just as good, The Three Sisters pictures hopes and longings turning to frustrations and regrets. The three Prozoroff sisters and their brother Andrey live discontentedly in a dull provincial town. Olga, the eldest (Judith Anderson), is already half-doomed to schoolteaching and spinsterhood. Masha, the second sister (Katharine Cornell), is a bored neurotic married to a fatuous pedant. Irina, the youngest (Gertrude Musgrove), still high-spiritedly dreams of romance. Brother Andrey (Eric Dressier), an intellectual weakling, still dabbles with the idea of a Moscow professorship. They all have one thing in common...
...Camouflage paints for storage tanks and factories, which repel infra-red heat from the sun almost as well as metallic and light-colored paints, are now available. Made in dull, earthen colors, the new paints do not show in infra-red photographs made by observation planes...